THE   TAKING   OF   CADIZ	[8TH   AUG.
in Cadiz, and that which pmcheth the King of Spam most (his
ships ezcepted) are the 1,200 pieces of ordnance taken or sunk
in his ships. The Spaniards' losses in all are reckoned to be
worth 20,000,000 ducats at the least
These things being happily achieved, Sir John Wingfield was
-very honourably buried in Santa Cruz, the chief church of
Cadiz, with all the funeral solemnities of war , the drums and
trumpets sounding dolefully, the shot bearing the noses of their
pieces downward, the pikes trailed His body was borne by six
knights, and the Generals threw their handkerchiefs wet from
their eyes into the grave , and at that instant the most part of
all the shot, great and small, aboard and ashore, were discharged
The zyth June being Sunday the Lords Generals, with all
the chiefs and gentlemen of the army, heard a sermon at
S Francisco, where after dinner they made a great many knights,
even all almost that did deserve it, or affect it, or not neglect it
and refuse it, as some did In this prodigality of honour
fifty-se\en Englishmen are knighted, and as with the Count
Lodowick of Nassau, Don Christopher (son to Don Antonio that
was called King of Portugal) and four Dutch gentlemen are
Imghted, but Sir Samuel Bagnal and Sir Arthur Savage had
been knighted before the town was taken for their bravery in
the field
The next day being Monday the 28th the Lord Admiral
went aboard to set things in order in the fleet and to make
ready for a new enterprise, and by his example also to draw
the seamen and manners to their ships that were loath to come
out of the to-wn
About this time the Lord Admiral received from the Duke of
Medina Sidonia, his old acquaintance since '88, two very hon-
ourable answers to two letters which he had written about the
exchange of prisoners, Spanish for English, in the galleys The
Duke's answer was that he liked well of the motion and would
do it so much as lay in him, but the charge was more particu-
larly in the Adelantado of the galleys To whom he wrote so
effectually that within a day the Adelantado sent a principal
captain to the Lord Admiral, who made full agreement for the
exchange
Upon the 1st July about forty of our English prisoners were
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